approach to data from British cities for 1851-1911. I show that local industrial coal use substantially reduced long-run city … employment growth over this period. Moreover, a counterfactual analysis suggests that plausible improvements in coal use …

-producing districts of Britain during the U.S. Civil War, and the coal boom in Appalachian counties of the U.S. that followed the OPEC oil … adjusting for migration, we find that mortality increased during the cotton recession, but was largely unaffected by the coal …

this relationship in 1900. Growing industrial coal use from 1851-1900 reduced life expectancy by at least 0.57 years. A …

Public-place smoking restrictions are the most important non-price tobacco control measures worldwide, yet surprisingly … laws had no effects on smoking but induced large and statistically significant reductions in public-place ETS exposure … indicate wide latitude for health improvements from banning smoking in public places …

education of partners and their parents. Adult health behaviors such as smoking, drinking, and exercise are more positively …We also investigated pre and post partnership smoking behavior of couples. There exists strong positive assortative … mating in smoking in that smokers are much more likely to partner with smokers and non-smokers with non-smokers. This …

's decision to smoke is determined by culture. For each country, we use retrospective data to describe individual smoking … accurately relative to the extant literature. Our proxy predicts smoking participation of second-generation British immigrants …

endowments and investments (education and smoking in pregnancy) on the probability of having a baby who is small for gestational … maternal education and smoking in pregnancy, and investigate whether women endowed with different traits have different returns … mainly operate by changing maternal smoking, and that the physical fitness of the mother has a direct, "biological" effect on …

Since 2005, the Chinese government has engaged in an ambitious effort to move China's energy system away from coal and … towards more environmentally friendly sources of energy. However, China's investment in coal power has accelerated sharply in …. In this paper, we ask why China engaged in such a pronounced investment boom in coal power in the mid-2010s. We find the …

mortality shows sharply higher mortality rates in the Appalachian region, especially in coal-mining areas. This has led … observers to make a link that was characterized by one newspaper as "abandoned by coal, swallowed by opioids." We test that … theory using restricted death data and mine level coal production data. Specifically, we examine whether higher reliance on …